printing a list of doc strings

[Remco Gerlich]

schmitthead at my-deja.com wrote in comp.lang.python:
> What I had in mind was something like this:
> 
> for i in dir(os):
>     print eval( string.join( str(
> i ), "__doc__" ) )
> 
> Any advice?  I just want a list of all the items
> in os with their doc
> strings.

Well, it's something like that alright. How about:

for i in dir(os):
  print eval("os.%s.__doc__" % i)
  
Of course, this gives an exception for object that have no __doc__, like int
constants. 

Probably the best thing is to use __dict__:

for (name, object) in os.__dict__.items():
  if hasattr(object, '__doc__'):
    print "Docstring of object os.%s:" % name
    print object.__doc__
  else:
    print "Object os.%s has no docstring." % name

-- 
Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
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